[beaconstudios]

Nicky's work is a joy and a blessing - one of a small number of great artists and creators online playing with systems and simulations in attempt to educate people through experimentation and play.

Other people worth checking out:

- Bret Victor (worrydream.com)

- Kevin Simler (https://meltingasphalt.com/)

- the "explorables" subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/explorables/)

If anyone else can recommend other writers or makers in this area, I'd love to hear about them! It's an area that I really enjoy and I hope to contribute to when I have a bit more free time.

[edit] also I'm happy about the fact that Nicky's work often has to do with systems theory, which is one of the biggest remaining frontiers of human understanding in the universe.

[thoughtFrame]

Ciechanowski's work (check Gears and Curves as good examples, but all of them are good) https://ciechanow.ski/archives/

Interactive linear algebra book https://textbooks.math.gatech.edu/ila/

Visualizing quaternions https://eater.net/quaternions

Another quaternions visualization tool that reminded me that a few years ago many sites were full of java applets that were the first "explorables". Sometimes I still stumble upon old university websites that leave some space for the applet but it never loads. Sad stuff

https://quaternions.online/

Some tools to make them:

https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim

https://p5js.org/

https://processing.org/

[nefitty]

Observable is full of geniuses using JS to make cool brainy stuff. The other awesome thing is that you can immediately mess with their code without forking or making an account.

https://observablehq.com/featured-creators

[kkiinnpptt]

- Daniel Shiffman (https://natureofcode.com/, https://thecodingtrain.com/)

Nature of Code was the book that made coding click for me.